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mod_auth_oauth_external: Linkify password grant
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:46:04 +0200
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---
summary: Authenticate against an external OAuth 2 IdP
labels:
- Stage-Alpha
---

This module provides external authentication via an external [AOuth
2](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7628) authorization server
and supports the [SASL OAUTHBEARER authentication][rfc7628]
mechanism as well as PLAIN for legacy clients (this is all of them).

# How it works

Clients retrieve tokens somehow, then show them to Prosody, which asks
the Authorization server to validate them, returning info about the user
back to Prosody.

Alternatively for legacy clients, Prosody receives the users username
and password and retrieves a token itself, then proceeds as above.

# Configuration

`oauth_external_issuer`
:   Optional URL string representing the Authorization server identity.

`oauth_external_discovery_url`
:   Optional URL string pointing to [OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server
    Metadata](https://oauth.net/2/authorization-server-metadata/). Lets
    clients discover where they should retrieve access tokens from if
    they don't have one yet. Default based on `oauth_external_issuer` is
    set, otherwise empty.

`oauth_external_validation_endpoint`
:   URL string. The token validation endpoint, should validate the token
    and return a JSON structure containing the username of the user
    logging in the field specified by `oauth_external_username_field`.
    Commonly the [OpenID `UserInfo`
    endpoint](https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#UserInfo)

`oauth_external_username_field`
:   String. Default is `"preferred_username"`. Field in the JSON
    structure returned by the validation endpoint that contains the XMPP
    localpart.

## For SASL PLAIN

`oauth_external_resource_owner_password`
:   Boolean. Defaults to `true`. Whether to allow the *insecure*
    [resource owner password
    grant](https://oauth.net/2/grant-types/password/) and SASL PLAIN.

`oauth_external_token_endpoint`
:   URL string. OAuth 2 [Token
    Endpoint](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-3.2) used
    to retrieve token in order to then retrieve the username.

`oauth_external_client_id`
:   String. Client ID used to identify Prosody during the resource owner
    password grant.

# Compatibility

## Prosody

  Version   Status
  --------- ---------------
  trunk     works
  0.12.x    does not work
  0.11.x    does not work

## Identity Provider

Tested with

-   [KeyCloak](https://www.keycloak.org/)

# Future work

-   Automatically discover endpoints from Discovery URL
-   Configurable input username mapping (e.g. user → user@host).
-   [SCRAM over HTTP?!][rfc7804]